'There Are Only TWO Genders' – Thought Experiment Game with PSU Students

Students at Portland State University were asked whether they agree or disagree with the claim "there are only two genders." Here is what happened before we were confronted outside of the PSU social work building on May 11th.

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Chapters:
0:00 Agreement Levels
0:26 Reasons for Agree
1:23 Reasons for Disagree
2:58 Definition of Gender
7:13 Reasons for Strongly Agree
8:31 Disconfirmation Check for Disagree
9:38 Disconfirmation Check for Agree
11:42 Interruption
12:29 Discussing Interruption
15:13 Wrap Up

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[macworks]

When they give you the finger and tell you that you can't ask the question or have the discussion because you are harming people it is not about harm. It is about control, and they want to control you. Resist.

[comment]

Imagine you think you’re changing the world for the better by shutting down a civil conversation.

[veggiewrangler]

Great discussions. Sad to hear these thoughtful students feel they have to be careful with their honest opinions on a university campus.

[johnwood]

I love how the girl who identified as binary comes out with the “I’ll have to teach you these things because you’re so old that you don’t understand” argument. There’s nothing more ignorant, than that person in that moment.

[Ozgipsy]

It took me a while to work out that they’ve confused “gender” with psychological personality traits.

[kevinbeach]

I always thought dysmorphia was a mental condition not a sexual identity.

[johnnybgoode]

If by discussing gender identity in an open way I'm hurting those who identify as non-binary, then those who identify as non-binary must be very fragile in their belief. If those who identify as non-binary can't even be certain enough in their own belief to weather an open discussion of their claims without being emotionally damaged, why the hell should I put any stock in their belief? It's so absurd.

[landanrainey]

Please keep doing these! This calm unboxing of ideas is essential in a free democracy.

[lukeaurand]

These first two guys are incredibly respectful. That was a great conversation

[anthonyamare]

This video help me realize that when they say they want a “safe space” they literally mean safe from thinking critically. They are mad that they are being challenged at college, they only want to be indoctrinated.

[BunE]

Here are my 2 cents. Gender and sex are synonymous, it's your biological designation. The way gender is being used today is a feeling/psychological thing. For instance, I was born female, my gender is female, but I had a huge masculine influence growing up. I had 2 older brothers, and 8 out of 10 of my cousins are males. I was the first female born. I had masculine traits, a tomboy. At no time was I not female. I was a female that had the freedom to act like a boy, yet always identified as female. We all have different traits, they are on a spectrum. You can be a manly male or a girly male, or a girly girl or a manly girl, in any ratio between those points. But your actual gender is what you were born with. Has an anthropologist ever said, "That appears to be a male gorilla as I see a penis and testicles, but I don't want to misgender because the gorilla may identify as a female."

[kevinjackson]

Glad to see a couple of very clear thinking, articulate young men on campus who don't suppress their voices due to the culture of fear. It keeps my tenuous hope about our cultural future going.

[purdysanchez]

How can we have conversations if one party believes that questions are literally violence?

[tipsyt]

Mad respect to the dude immediately admitting to using google, he had more self awareness than most. He at least knew he was uninformed but he tried lol

[lep]

“You’re harming individuals by asking that question.” TRAs are indistinguishable from cultists.

[mattrg]

Just had a thought on how you can eliminate the so-called gender pay gap. Get the highest paid male employees in a company to identify as female. Then when the activists complain that they aren't actually women, they'll have to explain why.

[oldNavyJZ]

We need more professors like this in our colleges!

[ricepudding]

The “words are violence” line is not about shutting down the conversation. It’s much more sinister. It justifies actual physical violence against you.

In other words, they would consider physical violence against Peter justified.

It is extremely dark, sinister and dangerous.

[chrisbamborough]

And all these years I thought it was Portland Lunatic Asylum, this confirms that. Mind you in the UK we have our own Oxford and Cambridge. Credit to the Gentleman's immense patience.🤪🤗

[RockChlk]

This issue boils down to objective vs subjective reality. Reality cannot be subjective because it's something that we all share. If the person next to me is changing their own reality every day, how am I supposed to keep up? We have to agree on the objective truths of the world, or else we can not function as a society.